Professor Geneviève Helleringer

Genevieve Helleringer (PhD Sorbonne, JD Columbia, MSc Oxford, MiM ESSEC) is a corporate governance, contract and transnational commercial law scholar and prize-winning lecturer.  A professor at the Law faculty of Oxford University and ESCP Business School (Paris & London), she has been a visiting professor at Columbia Law School and Paris-Assas University since 2023, and she was  a visiting faculty at UCLA (2020, 2026) and the Max Planck Institute for International and Comparative Studies (2012). 

Geneviève’s research focuses on governance and financial regulation, as well as contracts and international dispute resolution, harnessing insights from law & finance, geo-economics and psychology. Her monograph on Contractual Terms was awarded four prizes.

She is a founding member and academic editor of the Journal of Financial Regulation (Oxford University Press) and the Oxford Business Law Blog. Geneviève is also an elected fellow of the American Law Institute, a leading private and commercial law reform organisation, and a research member and Vice-Chair of the global corporate think tank ECGI.  

The practical impact of Geneviève’s scholarship has been recognised by her appointment to the Board of Appeal for the European Banking Authority, the European Securities Market Authority and the European Insurance and Pensions Authority (since 2021). She was the appointed mediator for the French Federation for Commerce. She regularly acts as a mediator and arbitrator (she was the ADR appointee for the French Federation of Commerce 2017-2020), as well as an expert on French contract, corporate and financial law. She is an elected PRIME-Finance expert and appeared in front of the High Court in London, Federal Trade commission and various US courts. 

With a French, Anglo-American and German background, Geneviève started her career at Shiseido in Tokyo and practised law as a member of the Bar in New York and in Paris at Willkie Farr & Gallagher and Freshfields. Genevieve is an enthusiastic gallery-goer, an amateur pianist and has published a number of short stories.